LONDON -- Graham Vick, a British director who founded Birmingham Opera Company and worked in opera houses around the world, has died of complications from COVID-19. Birmingham Opera said it was “devastated to announce” that Vick, its artistic director, died Saturday. Born in Birkenhead in northwest England in 1953, Vick was a champion of taking opera to the people. As director of productions at Scottish Opera in the 1980s, he toured productions to remote communities. Vick was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year for services to opera and to Britain’s regions.

Source: ABC News July 18, 2021 11:43 UTC